She died on Jan. 12 in her Manhattan home following a 20-month battle with pancreatic cancer, according to her husband,
Paul Pfeiffer. She had been under hospice care since Christmas
Eve, he said yesterday in a telephone interview.

A member of JPMorgan’s real-estate financing unit for
almost 35 years, Pfeiffer managed a seven-person portfolio-management team as head of the New York-based bank’s commingled
property funds, which are pension trusts catering to retirement
and governmental plans. Under her leadership, the Strategic
Property Fund, JPMorgan’s core real-estate portfolio, was the
largest of its kind.

“Anne has been a masterful portfolio manager, an
inspirational leader, a talented colleague and a true friend,”
Kevin Faxon, the bank’s head of real estate for the Americas,
wrote in a letter to clients in July to announce her retirement.

Investors in the Strategic Property Fund, of which she was
senior portfolio manager, included the Public School Teachers
Pension & Retirement Fund of Chicago and the New York City
Employees’ Retirement System, according to data compiled by
Bloomberg. The assets included the Landmark Center in Boston,
Century Park in Los Angeles and International Toy Center in New
York.

Fund Portfolio

Other real-estate funds she oversaw included the Special
Situation Property Fund, with $3.1 billion of assets; the
Alternative Property Fund, with $647 million in holdings; the
Diversified Commercial Property Fund, a $372.8 million defined-contribution vehicle; and the $2.3 billion U.S. Income & Growth
Fund, according to an overview of the investments last February.

From 2002 to 2008, Pfeiffer was on the board of directors
at the National Council of Real Estate Investment Fiduciaries,
and president in 2007 and 2008. The Chicago-based association of
institutional real-estate professionals addresses industry
issues and promotes research, according to its website.

Pfeiffer was elected to the board of the Real Estate
Information Standards for a three-year term starting in January
2012. The group is sponsored by the National Council of Real
Estate Investment Fiduciaries and the Pension Real Estate
Association “to facilitate informed investment decision-making,” according to its website.

‘Dearly Loved’

“Anne was a friend and mentor to so many people she worked
with at the firm,” her husband said, summarizing the e-mails he
had received since her death. “She was dearly loved and revered
among her co-workers.”

Anne Shultz Pfeiffer was born on Aug. 10, 1952, in Aurora,
Illinois. Her father, Robert Shultz, was a Dartmouth College-educated businessman who had a manufacturing firm in the Chicago
area. Her mother, Elizabeth, was a registered nurse.

She attended Naperville Central High School in Naperville,
Illinois, before completing a Bachelor of Business
Administration degree at Southern Methodist University in
Dallas. A certified public accountant, Pfeiffer began her career
at Coopers & Lybrand, where she was a supervising accountant,
before the firm merged with Price Waterhouse in 1998.

Pfeiffer joined JPMorgan in 1979 as the senior finance
officer and served as head of the finance group, as a senior
asset manager and an acquisitions officer, according to
JPMorgan’s website. She was responsible for the origination,
analysis and negotiation of commercial real-estate transactions.

Her passions included travel and art, and she played a
mentoring role to young women in finance and business, according
to Paul Pfeiffer.

In addition to her husband, her survivors include their two
children, Christof and Kirsten, and her mother. A sister, Mary,
and brother Nicholas preceded her in death.